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Announcing The #FediWriMo Journaling January Event (piefed-media.feddit.online)

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Announcing the #FediWriMo Journaling January event:

The event schedule is as follows:

🖋️ Dates: Jan 1st - Jan 31st, 2026.
🖋️ Daily writing prompts will be supplied, but are optional.
🖋️ The goal is to write a minimum of three pages a day.
🖋️ Writing daily is more important than meeting the goal.
🖋️ Posting excerpts is optional, but encouraged.

If you are interested in participating:

➤ Sign up on https://feddit.online/ and join the FediWriMo Community, or

➤ Join !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online from any Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed instance.

➤ Follow nanowrimo2@feddit.online from Mastodon, GotoSocial or other platforms for daily prompts and updates.

➤ Use the event hashtag: #FediJournJan

I hope you decide to join us this January! More information to come soon.

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[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Three pages at 72pt font, got it /s

This seems like a cool idea! As a habitual plotter, I always think that the nanowrimo goal is just too intense to write anything of substance since I'm too focused on word count... I end up typing a bunch of words but not actually writing any story. that may be just a me thing, though!

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's exactly the point - focus more on content and less on word count. But also, this tends to be more personal than about writing fiction.

I'm going to be posting a lengthy article about journaling that I am writing currently, along with the setup notes for TrackBear in the FediWriMo community later today, or possibly tomorrow.

And 72pt? Why so tiny? Go for 120pt or 240pt - you could type the word "and" and have three pages. 🤣 But all kidding aside, in the original post for this event I suggested for those using something like Obsidian or Notion (or any other non-paginating editor) they should probably use 300-350 words-per-page as a guideline.